The CEO’ s second choice novel Chapter 63

　　Sebastian

　　Elena Dumont has died, perished in the hospital after not waking from her coma. Well, that’s what we paid the press to report. We needed to weed Robert and Eliana out and think this would be the best way to do it. After Isaac’s confession, we decided to work together and concluded that the only way to get them out of France was to pretend Elena had died. A funeral was scheduled the day after tomorrow and the ‘will’ would be read this afternoon.

　　Francis, the driver has confessed his role in the attempted murder of Elena and my son and said that Robert paid him close to 2 million to do it. We handed him over to the police and Isaac let them know about NCA’s involvement. Isaac has found the reason for Robert and Eliana’s actions and concluded that it was all for greed Eliana grew jealous of my and Elena’s love and hated that she gave up the chance to be the Dumont Matriarch. Robert, who was stupidly in love with her, started killing off the family to gain the Dumont wealth. My father was on to him and advised my aunt Elise to change the beneficiary of her will to both of her children and hand her shares in Dumont Enterprises over to my father. Not soon after and she was murdered, my parents’ death followed after that, with threats to my life and Elena’s as well.

　　Money, the root of all evil.

　　The front door banged open. “Sebastian!” came the put-on voice of Eliana and I got up to meet her. “Showtime,” I murmured to Elijah, and the woman who looked like my wife engulfed me in a hug. “I am so sorry I couldn’t be here sooner! Elena! My Elena is gone!” She exclaims and clings to me while sinking to the floor dramatically. Elijah rolls his eyes and walks over to the window while sipping on his whiskey. “I thought she was recovering?” Came the voice of the man I wished to strangle but kept my cool. I shake my head. “She grew too weak after the baby died in her womb and just never woke up. The trauma to her brain was too much. She would have been in a vegetative state all her life so I made the decision I never would have dreamed to make.” I say, forcing myself to look miserable, but I think I sold my performance because Eliana wrapped me in another hug.

　　“Elena would have wanted you to make the right choice, Sebastian. That would not have been her lying there, only her body and her spirit would have left her body.” She says while rubbing my arms and it took everything in me not to show how disgusted I felt. I hate how this snake of a woman had my Elena’s face but none of her traits. She made my skin crawl. How I pretended to be in love with her for so long, I would never know. “You’re absolutely right, Eliana. Come, let us get this reading of her will over and done with.” I say and lead the two of them to the living room area where the ‘attorney’ waited for us.

　　30 minutes later, Eliana was under the impression that she was wealthier than Robert. She thanked us and took her leave, promising to be at the funeral later this week. We knew they would show up only to show their faces, but hopefully, there would be no funeral display because we had listening devices implanted inside their vehicles and a bracelet Elena ‘gifted’ to Eliana.

　　“Now we wait,” Isaac proclaimed, and this was the worst part, but luckily for us, greedy people boast.

　　It wasn’t even a few hours, and we had them hook, line and sinker. Robert accused Eliana of wanting me now that I had all the Dumont wealth. Eliana readily admitted to this. “I killed for you!” Robert had exclaimed but Eliana said she never asked him to murder his family when she was already planning her parent’s and sister’s deaths. Susanna and William lay dead in Walthamstow Marshes, courtesy of Francis as well.

　　Robert and Eliana were unaware of the world of trouble they were in, but finally, my family would be safe. And instead of attending Elena’s funeral, the police and NCA pulled them in for questioning, with Eliana singing like a bird but confessing to nothing that would make her look guilty. Until her tapes were played. Robert, of course, admitted to everything, saying he was sick of this cat-and-mouse game Eliana was playing with him.

　　It has been close to two weeks since this occurred, and Elena has been deathly quiet. Her light that I used to love so much was slowly diminishing and nothing I did seemed to be helping. She spends all her free time staring at Aaron and just laying in bed half in a daze. I know the quick succession of betrayal has hurt her to her core, but she refused to speak to me about it. What could I do? How do I help my wife out of this darkness that was slowly creeping into her heart?

　　I sigh, picking up my phone and thinking of the only thing that would help.

　　Elena

　　Curled up on my side and wished I could feel happiness again.